Sporting his new hat as the head of the Heritage Foundation, former Sen. Jim DeMint said Saturday said that conservatives should not rely on the GOP establishment to deliver the movement's message. He said it is time to take matters into their own hands.

To go along with this -- suppose, just suppose, that conservatives used the entire month of February to make a statement: CHANGE YOUR PARTY REGISTRATION. Change it to Independent, to Conservative -- heck, I'm considering changing to Democrat so I can start screwing up *their* primaries for a change.

But suppose the GOP leadership (I use the term loosely) noticed millions of voters leaving their registration rolls. Do you think maybe THEN they would get the point?

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posted on 01/27/2013 8:30:02 PM PST
by NewJerseyJoe
(Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")

The only fun or good thing about bouncing off the bottom is its so much easier to improve, to move upward.

Yes, both Palin and DeMint are now free to do what is in America’s best interest. Whether its one of them or another astute enough to overcome, we will be lucky any can overcome the tsunami of resistance from both friend and enemy. I am optimistic!

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posted on 01/27/2013 8:44:50 PM PST
by X-spurt
(Republic of Texas, Come and Take It!)

When I volunteered last year for the Republican Party, our “leader” was shocked by the very idea that most registered Independents and many unregistered eligible voters might be people who think the GOPe sucks because they are too far to the left, and are no different than the Democrats.

DeMint is no longer in the Senate. Although he'd never admit it, I suspect he got really fed up with the BS and decided to go get a job where he could REALLY make a difference.

This ping list is officially dead. However, I know some of you are interested in following Jim in his new role at Heritage. So the ping list will remain active for those threads where Jim plays a major role.

Let me know by FReep mail if you want on or off this list.

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This is very interesting because its basically the same thing that Sarah Palin was saying Saturday. They both are close to Levin and Levin has been going off on the Republican Establishment too....hmmm!

I think DeMint is saying Conservatives have to strike out on their own with their messaging and ignore the RINO's advice about what/where/when to deliver that message. He's saying Conservatives need to take our message directly to the voters; ignore the RINO's; change the discourse outside DC.

RE:”Sen. Jim DeMint said Saturday said that conservatives should not rely on the GOP establishment to deliver the movement's message Looks like he slipped on his *Captain Obvious* super suit after leaving the Senate.”

I saw him on the Morning Joe (Joe and Mika been on an anti-gun Jehad since last year) earlier in the week and he (JD) praised them for getting to the bottom of the real causes of gun violence, then they asked him what about the current Obama proposals he accepts or rejects and he said he wasn't ready to make up his mind yet.

I notice he didn't spell out the message he had in mind.

Most of the comments on this thread are near identical to those in 2011 on the Palin threads, feeling good for a while going nowhere.

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posted on 01/27/2013 9:43:15 PM PST
by sickoflibs
(Losing to Dems and Obama is not a principle! Its just losing.)

“It is going to be very interesting to see just how the GOP and more specifically the GOPe react to DeMint now that he is really unrestrained and has a huge microphone.”
And if there is to be a big shakeup in the GOP whereby Conservatives gain control, it will be interesting to see who decides to leave the party....ala Colon Bowel and other ilk.

2) Obama's people have significant blackmail on several GOP key people, including Boehner and Chief Justice Roberts. They will continue to knuckle under. I also think Fox News has been penetrated by the Democrats, too.

3) Palin? Palin has been permanently destroyed by the Democrat-Media alliance. She was forced out at Fox News, I believe. If she left on her own, why? No lawsuit. No scandal. She can't be thinking of running in 2016. She is political damaged goods.

4) Do we really think there will even be a 2016 election? I find it doubtful.

Jim DeMint is a gentleman fighter of integrity.
How in the name of sanity, could he possibly retain his, going to work 4 days a week with the likes of scumbags and idiots on the other side of the aisle, let alone the fossil incumbent RINOs on his side?

The bottom line is that the GOP-E has committed political suicide with all of its skullduggery against Conservatives, and so the only way out of this mess is to form a wholly new national Conservative Party, and chuck the Republican Party to the trash heap.

Yeah, Mark Levin’s been on fire for the past few weeks, and I would suggest that he’s actually the ideological leader of the Conservative movement right now, in the absence of anyone else fulfilling that role.

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